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>> boise is in the east, san diego is in the east and south florida and central florida are also up in the east. yes. it makes no sense at all. and, by the way, the big ten has 14 teams now. >> jeff: (laughs) i was going to say map makers have to get to work but so do mathematicians. john feinstein, thank you so much. >> thank you, jeff. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: internet and cell phone service was down in syria, and there was fighting near the airport in damascus, as rebels battled government forces. democrats and republicans accused each other of refusing to talk specifics about how to avoid the fiscal cliff. house speaker john boehner said there's been no progress in the last two weeks. and the u.n. general assembly voted to recognize palestine as a non-member observer state. the u.s. was one of only nine states voting no. and, you've heard the term "glacial pace"? not exactly, says one director who's scaled enough ice, to know better. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: filmmaker james balog spent years documenting dramatic changes in arctic glacie
>> boise is in the east, san diego is in the east and south florida and central florida are also up in the east. yes. it makes no sense at all. and, by the way, the big ten has 14 teams now. >> jeff: (laughs) i was going to say map makers have to get to work but so do mathematicians. john feinstein, thank you so much. >> thank you, jeff. >> suarez: again, the major developments of the day: internet and cell phone service was down in syria, and there was fighting near the...
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the florida court ruled against law enforcement in both cases so it was the state of florida that brought the cases to the supreme court today. >> woodruff: so the justices heard these separately. and what kinds of questions were they asking. the first about the case involving the house? >> well, the state of florida was represented by the same lawyer in both cases, former solicitor general gregory gar and he told the justices that in prior cases of the supreme court the court found that drug-sniffing dogs were rather unique and they could search luggage, open containers because we don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in contraband. and he said this was really no different here but he ran into trouble across the bench from justices. the home, it appears, the difference in the eyes of the court. justice ginsburg said, for example, "under your theory of the case, couldn't police take drug sniffing dogs into neighborhoods that have drug problems and go door by door having the dog sniff or t front door? or into an apartment building and go door by door?" justice scalia pointed out t
the florida court ruled against law enforcement in both cases so it was the state of florida that brought the cases to the supreme court today. >> woodruff: so the justices heard these separately. and what kinds of questions were they asking. the first about the case involving the house? >> well, the state of florida was represented by the same lawyer in both cases, former solicitor general gregory gar and he told the justices that in prior cases of the supreme court the court found...
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in several florida counties they're still counting ballots now. why >> because they have so many ballots that have pored in, in miami-dade county you had people who went by their precinct and said "my god, i can't wait that long." so they went to headquarters and got an absentee ballot and voted the absentee ballot at the supervise over's headquarters. those poured in about 55,000. so they just finished going through that volume now -- or they're finishing. i don't want to speak too soon because there are a bunch of ballots to be left to be counted in miami-dade, broward and palm beach counties. i think duval county, the jacksonville area, is just about done, if not done. next are provisional ballots, which are a little different. >> suarez: curt, the day began in arizona with half a million ballots to be counted there and very close races. have we evolve add hybrid system that includes more liberal absentee, more liberal early voting, various ways to vote but we haven't caught up with where we're going as a system? >> that's true. many of the exp
in several florida counties they're still counting ballots now. why >> because they have so many ballots that have pored in, in miami-dade county you had people who went by their precinct and said "my god, i can't wait that long." so they went to headquarters and got an absentee ballot and voted the absentee ballot at the supervise over's headquarters. those poured in about 55,000. so they just finished going through that volume now -- or they're finishing. i don't want to speak...
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. >> brown: then, two weeks after the vote, a florida congressional race is resolved. we update the post-election changes in the house of representatives. >> woodruff: would building walls protect cities like new york from flooding after major storms? hari sreenivasan examines that as part of our "coping with climate change" series. >> as people continue to clean up from hurricane sandy, we look at what it could take to keep this damage from happening again. >> brown: ray suarez updates the health care reform law, as the obama administration issues new rules governing what insurers must cover. >> woodruff: and we close under the bright lights of high school football, where a trail-blazing coach puts her players' studies ahead of practice. >> you won't be playing football. we like to think we have a lot of life to live so you will too and you need to prepare for that. football is kind of just icing on the >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. s
. >> brown: then, two weeks after the vote, a florida congressional race is resolved. we update the post-election changes in the house of representatives. >> woodruff: would building walls protect cities like new york from flooding after major storms? hari sreenivasan examines that as part of our "coping with climate change" series. >> as people continue to clean up from hurricane sandy, we look at what it could take to keep this damage from happening again. >>...